Our Field Trip to Novell on The SuSE Real-Time Linux Kernel
is scheduled for the 3rd Thursday in March... 19-MAR-2009.

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DIRECTIONS

Location:
The Cooper Union (http://www.cooper.edu)
School of Engineering
51 Astor Place (8th Street, between 3rd and 4th Ave)
East Village, Manhattan
New York City
Meeting Room: The Driscoll Room: 136E (1st Floor)
Located on the North side of Astor Place (8th Street), between 3rd & 4th Avenues.
Building lobby sign-in is required at the guard's desk.
Enter the building, check in with the guard at the lobby for directions
to the room. From the main entrance, keep going straight beyond the
guard till the end of the hall, make a left, pass the elevators (on
your left), keep going, and Room 136E will be on your right.
Nearest mass transit stations are:
'6' to Astor Place (stops right at The Cooper Union).
'R' to 8th Street, then walk about 2 blocks East.
'4/5/6/R/N/Q' to Union Square, then walk South and East.
'B/D/F/V' to Broadway-Lafayette, then walk North and East.
Free street parking becomes available at 6pm.
There are also parking lots on Broadway at Astor Place.

PRESENTATION OUTLINE

Topic: The FreeBSD Networking Stack

Meeting Outline:

This talk will be an introductory tutorial to network device drivers
in FreeBSD. We plan to cover the Intel Gigabit Ethernet interface,
aka the igb, as well as to talk in general about how drivers are
hooked into the system, and how the standard kernel APIs are
used to work with them.

George Neville-Neil is a member of the FreeBSD project, its core,
release engineering and security teams as well as co-author with
Kirk McKusick of "The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD
Operating System". He is also a member of the ACM Queue editorial
board and the columnist Kode Vicious. His research interests
include operating systems, real-time and embedded programming,
and networking. He is also an avid cyclist and traveler who has
made his home in Tokyo, Japan for the last 4 years.

COMPANY BIOGRAPHY

FreeBSD is an advanced operating system for x86 compatible
(including Pentium and Athlon), amd64 compatible (including
Opteron, Athlon, and EM64T), UltraSPARC, IA-64, PC-98 and ARM
architectures. It is derived from BSD, the version of UNIX
developed at the University of California, Berkeley. It is
developed and maintained by a large team of individuals.
Additional platforms are in various stages of development.
For information about FreeBSD, visit http://www.freebsd.org.

GIVEAWAYS

Addison-Wesley Professional/Prentice Hall PTR has been kind
enough to provide us with some of their books, which we will
continue to raffle off as giveaways at our meetings.
Addison-Wesley also has a new end-user discount, available
through their User Group program. We will be announcing the
details at our next meeting!

O'Reilly has been kind enough to provide us with some of their
books, which we will continue to raffle off as giveaways at our
meetings.

Unigroup would like to thank both companies for the support
provided by their User Group programs.

Note: The chances tend to be about 1 in 5, that any attendee of
our meeting will walk away with a fairly valuable giveaway
(ie. many of these books are valued between $30 and $60)!

As always, all of the books will be available for review at the
start of the meeting.

FEE SCHEDULE

Unigroup is a Professional Technical Organization and User Group, and
its members pay a yearly membership fee.
For Unigroup members, there is usually no additional charges
(ie. no meeting fees) during their membership year.
Non-members who wish to attend Unigroup meetings are usually required to
pay a "Single Meeting Fee".

Complimentary Food and Refreshments will be served. This includes
"wraps" such as turkey, roast beef, chicken, tuna and grilled
vegetables as well as assorted salads (potato, tossed,
pasta, etc), cookies, brownies, bottled water and assorted beverages.